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title: Let an adult change toy batteries, and put used batteries in battery… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: Let an adult change toy batteries, and put used batteries in battery recycling, not the bin, because they can leak, burn or catch fire. Who acts: you, adult, batteries. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 10

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Let an adult change toy batteries, and put used batteries in battery recycling, not the bin, because they can leak, burn or catch fire.

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**Who acts:** you, adult, batteries · **What happens:** let, change, put, use, leak, burn · **To what, where:** adult, toy batteries, used batteries, battery recycling, fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, adult, batteries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:10
# text = Let an adult change toy batteries, and put used batteries in battery recycling, not the bin, because they can leak, burn or catch fire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	leak	leak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* | toy batteries |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* | used batteries |  | battery recycling and the bin |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent battery=Theme in recycling=Destination |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leak** | can | batteries *= battery* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 6 | **burn** | infinitive | batteries *= battery* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **catch** | infinitive | batteries *= battery* *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:10`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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